Second-guessing yourself leads to worse decisions, study finds

When facing a tough decision, it pays to trust your gut. | Continue reading


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Scientist figures out how to move sun to avoid [interstellar] collisions

Advancing space travel generally involves building more powerful and efficient engines for space vehicles like rockets or shuttles. But what if instead of an individual spacecraft, you took our whole solar system on a ride through the galaxy by moving the sun? Such is the not-too … | Continue reading


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Is psychopathy untreatable? Why researchers are starting to change their minds

A growing body of research suggests that the "clinical pessimism" over treating psychopathy is unwarranted. | Continue reading


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Revival of 'Stoned ape' theory: psychedelics drove Homo Sapiens' cognitive leap

A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived. | Continue reading


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After Quantum Computers, Quark-Scale Computers (2013)

Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale. | Continue reading


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Scientists may have discovered the fifth force of nature

A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature. | Continue reading


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The perks of being a bit neurotic

It's one of our five major personality traits, and arguably, it's the worst one. Why are some human beings neurotic? | Continue reading


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You need to outthink your lazy brain (2013)

It's important to challenge "good enough" explanations. | Continue reading


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How outrage mobs silence academics – and what we can do to stop them

When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Japan switched to four-day workweek – sales skyrocketed 40%

Maybe it's time to show this report your employer? | Continue reading


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We have the tools and technology to work less and live better

In 1930, a year into the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write about the economic possibilities of his grandchildren. | Continue reading


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Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes

Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light. | Continue reading


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Thinking about death: High neural activity is linked to shorter lifespans

After a comprehensive study, researchers came to a startling conclusion. | Continue reading


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Bored to death: What is boreout syndrome?

The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe. | Continue reading


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The “singleton hypothesis” predicts the future of humanity

Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the future of human societies. | Continue reading


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Can hugging machines solve the touch crisis?

As the American loneliness epidemic reaches alarming new heights, one artist theorizes on what connection might look like in the future. | Continue reading


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Take one dash of constitutive panpsychism

Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder. | Continue reading


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Would a wealth tax in America work?

According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented. | Continue reading


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Highly Distractible People Have More Creative Success (2015)

Creativity is more than finding new solutions to abstract problems presented in laboratory settings, and a new study out of Northwestern University is one of the first to measure what qualities correlate with creative achievement in the real world. | Continue reading


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A Nobel Prize winner moves from data to discovery

How do you develop the next big idea? You pull together people who are both curious and passionate. | Continue reading


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Astrophysicists: Gamma-ray jets may exceed the speed of light

Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility. | Continue reading


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Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, new study finds

So much for rest in peace. | Continue reading


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Smart glass can do neural computing all by itself

A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated. | Continue reading


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When Einstein challenged Bohr, a new universe was born

Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein. | Continue reading


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Marchetti’s Constant: The curious principle that shapes our cities

How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises. | Continue reading


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Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climate change

A scientist in Sweden makes a controversial presentation at a future of food conference. | Continue reading


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While nobody wants to die, Emanuel believes that the alternative, degeneration, is worse: "living too long is also a loss," he states in his original essay. For a great deal of Americans these kinds of disabilities and loss of health severely limits what they can do and accomplis … | Continue reading


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Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells

Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells. | Continue reading


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India's 'Mount Everest of Trash'

Its landslides have killed locals before. | Continue reading


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Space is dead: A challenge to the standard model of quantum mechanics

Since the idea of locality is dead, space itself may not be an aloof vacuum: Something welds things together, even at great distances. | Continue reading


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The mystery behind Minoan bull-leaping

Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls? | Continue reading


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George Dantzig: The Real Will Hunting

How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting. | Continue reading


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Physicists find new state of matter that can supercharge technology

Scientists make an important discovery for the future of computing. | Continue reading


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Junior high school kills scientific curiosity

Rote memorization doesn't cut it for theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Here's why. | Continue reading


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Physicist advances a radical theory of gravity

Erik Verlinde has been compared to Einstein for completely rethinking the nature of gravity. | Continue reading


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Did we evolve to see reality as it exists?

The idea that we can't perceive objective reality in totality isn't new. We know everyone comes installed with cognitive biases and ego defense mechanisms. Our senses can be tricked by mirages and magicians. And for every person who sees a duck, another sees a rabbit.But Hoffman' … | Continue reading


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Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist

What is reality and how do we know? For many the answer is simple: What you see — hear, feel, touch, and taste — is what you get.Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must have existe … | Continue reading


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Mysterious radiation leak traced to Russian facility

Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom denies the allegations. | Continue reading


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A Finnish company is making food out of thin air

The company's protein powder, "Solein," is similar in form and taste to wheat flour. | Continue reading


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Mathematician Eric Weinstein Launches a New Podcast, the Portal

The Portal promises to be a deep dive into the possible. | Continue reading


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Robert Downey Jr. plans to 'clean up the planet' with A.I

It's a big, bold plan. | Continue reading


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California, an island? Meet cartography's most persistent mistake

The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of 'California as an island' | Continue reading


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Deer antlers are a 'controlled' form of bone cancer growth

Geneticist Qiang Qiu and his team, from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China started their research by mapping out the genes active in 16 live tissue samples from goats, sheep, and deer. Qiu and the research team found that genes responsible for bone formatio … | Continue reading


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Space miners race to an asteroid worth quintillions

Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up. | Continue reading


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